After another shock gold at the 2004 Olympics, Britain spent the next decade racking up disqualification after disqualification, with six in seven major championships, including at London 2012.

But everything came together spectacularly on Saturday night as Ujah, Gemili, Talbot and Mitchell-Blake held off the United States with a European record 37.47 seconds, the 14th fastest time in history.

Talbot said: “I really believe we can take this to another level and, in my opinion, I don’t see why we can’t dominate relays now.

“We have got the European record, British record, world lead and I don’t think any of us are in our prime.

“We can just keep pushing forward, we have got others who are going to push us as well and it’s not just us four.

“There are potentially 10 guys who can make this team and that starts with the relay, but also individually, and we can start to push in and win medals.”

Mitchell-Blake was the only member of the quartet to make an individual final, finishing an agonising fourth in the 200 metres, although Reece Prescod was also seventh in the 100m.

With Bolt’s retirement, Talbot claimed both events were now “100 per cent” open.

Saturday’s victory was also redemption for Talbot and Gemili, whose botched changeover was to blame for Britain’s disqualification at the same venue five years earlier.

Great Britain celebrate their relay success

Gemili said: “I was 18 in London, myself and Danny both very new to the team, very young. It was brutal.

“Honestly, it was a horrible time we went through. It really made us tough and strong within ourselves and a bit resilient to that.

“Five years later, to do it on the same track, in front of a home crowd, for myself and Danny and Christian Malcolm, who is the relay coach now and was in that team with us, it felt so amazing that we could do it.

“I wish I could shake the hand of everyone in the 60,000 crowd and thank them coming because it was amazing. It’s been a hell of a journey.”

Great Britain's women team claimed silver

The women’s team had fared marginally better prior to last night, failing to qualify for London 2012 after being disqualified at that summer’s European Championships before delivering bronze medals at the 2013 worlds and last year’s Olympics.

Saturday’s silver was another major step forward, one Dina Asher-Smith said would “hopefully” be a springboard to future individual success for her and her team-mates.

It also sealed a remarkable comeback from a broken foot for the 21-year-old, who earlier finished fourth in the 200m.

Revealing the “pain” of her recovery having had two screws inserted into her right foot, she added: “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone."